Vignesh Anand

Innate (F24). Former Graduate Student @stanford & Embodied AI and Robotics Lab.

[Vignesh Anand @Vignesh_Robots]

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[Cursor @cursor_ai]

Innate is a team of 7 building capable robots for everyday life.

"The seven of us here do the work of 50," says Vignesh Anand, co-founder of @innate_bot.

We spent time with the team to capture what building means to them.

[yuvan (e/acc) @yuvanarvind]

dream weekend at robohacks by @innate_bot at the @ycombinator office.

my first exposure to hardware was so fun! we got a special mention for the @GoogleDeepMind track. will drop details of the project below

team rm -rf \legs 🐐

[Filip Kujawa @filipbuilds]

Spent the weekend in the @ycombinator office and placed top 5 at RoboHacks!

We built Hour of Robotics— Hour of Code but for Robotics with block-based programming and in-browser simulation.

thanks @innate_bot @HackIterate @GoogleDeepMind @PalatialSim

[Robert Scoble @Scobleizer]

Another look at yesterday’s Robohacks hackathon at YCombinator in San Francisco.

[Robert Scoble @Scobleizer]

Just a little taste of the Robohacks hackathon happening now at @ycombinator in San Francisco.

This is only two of the teams.

The first is a team building a robot for an AirBnb on Mars.

The second built a system that 3D prints new tools for the robot to do new work on Mars.

Both demonstrate why I love builders so much.

Dreaming of a new world and learning together how to build for a new robot none of them have used before.

[👩‍💻 Paige Bailey @DynamicWebPaige]

🚀 Over 1000 registrants for the RoboHacks Hackathon this morning at @ycombinator!

And a *ton* of @Raspberry_Pi, Jetson Nano, 3D printers, and more.

[Chris Paxton @chris_j_paxton]

These are amazing, wish i had been able to see the second day

[Chris Paxton @chris_j_paxton]

Was a lot of fun to see in person

[Vignesh Anand @Vignesh_Robots]

Congrats guys

[Ricky @rickyramosx]

Won the best local/edge ai at RoboHacks this weekend with a project called LMAO 🤣

We replaced @innate_bot’s out-of-the-box gemini server with a fully local vision stack

Thx for organizing @ax_pey !

[👩‍💻 Paige Bailey @DynamicWebPaige]

🤖 @chris_j_paxton from @agilityrobotics at @ycombinator, demonstrating how robotics has finally gone mainstream!

And hardware and robotic perception has only just begun its takeoff – if you thought generative models were a rocketship, hardware is going to blow y'all's minds:

[Axel @ax_pey]

we made our robot calibrate its depth camera by holding a sign with its little arm

you only have to put a cardboard in its hand and press a button in the app

pretty cool :)

[Chris Paxton @chris_j_paxton]

First impressions:
- way faster and more responsive than I was expecting
- toddler has named him Herman

[Axel @ax_pey]

Introducing MARS, the first Personal AI Robot.

In technology, getting to the future we want starts with building it together.

This is why we designed Mars. Inspired by early PCs, Mars is a powerful, complete, extendable robot.

It runs BASIC, an open embodied AI agent we created for you to program with code, demonstrations, and prompts. This allows Mars to perform complex long-horizon tasks involving spatial memory, reasoning, manipulation and navigation.

Pre-orders open now

⬇️ Demos & details in the thread

[Vignesh Anand @Vignesh_Robots]

@ax_pey @O1Visa Looks like my boy needs a hoodie.

[Axel @ax_pey]

This is the year of mobile manipulators 🤖

We are soon releasing a small, affordable, open-source one for the AI & robotics community

• Onboard compute
• Smooth teleop
• Complete suite of sensors + extensible

Join our discord on @innate_bot's profile to build with us!

[Axel @ax_pey]

Experiment of the day: How would @danylo_movchan's dog react to being fed by a robot?

Maybe one day they will be friends

[Axel @ax_pey]

Can you teach your mobile robot without a computer in 30 seconds?

Yes, with a phone connected to a teleop arm! 🦾📲

Here grabbing up a ping-pong ball for @Vignesh_Robots

Want one?
Come build in the open with us @innate_bot !

[Vignesh Anand @Vignesh_Robots]

@meetsitaram @ax_pey Jetson orin nano is the onboard computer.

[Vignesh Anand @Vignesh_Robots]

@Aadhithya_D2003 @ax_pey All arm motion is based on a single camera and uses the latest in robot learning research. It is an end to end manipulation policy trained with about 30 mins of demonstrations.